Word: estardus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other headlines scattered through a single issue of the porno-Graphic : "THAW ATTACKS PRETTY GIRL IN HIS LUXURIOUS ROOMS" (the pretty girl" was a dance hall "hostess," one Marcia Estardus); "LURED TO His HIDDEN HOME AND CLUBBED" (the "hidden home" was an ordinary apartment. Miss Estardus knew who Mr. Thaw was and went to his apartment voluntarily. She was not "clubbed," but said that Mr. Thaw had beaten her with a hair brush which she wrenched from him.) "THAW BITES BROADWAY GIRL" (This was a less imaginative headline. Miss Estardus did indeed allege that Mr. Thaw flung...
Harry Thaw's actual condition was suggested by the allegation that after friends broke in and rescued Miss Estardus he ran about shouting: "Where's my brush? Where's my brush?" Such words, if they were uttered, place Mr. Thaw outside the realm of useful discussion by a public not made up of specialists...
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